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Earth Rising Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$1.5MInternational$586kFood & Nutrition$238kCivil Rights$188kCommunity Improvement$172kArts & Culture$125kEducation$108kPhilanthropy$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.2M
$15,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN AMERICA$40,000
OMPRAKASH INC$38,566
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK$30,000
FRIENDS OF AMARUN PAKCHA$20,000
KIDS FOR PEACE INC$20,000
MUNSTERPRENEUR INITIATIVE$20,000
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$20,000
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC$20,000
EARTH GUARDIANS INC$20,000
LITTLE VILLAGE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION$20,000
EARTH CHARTER INDIANA$20,000
TREES WATER AND PEOPLE$20,000
JENGA JUMUIA - BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOOL B$20,000
ACRES4CHANGE$20,000
WORLDWIDE OPPORTUNITIES ON ORGANIC FARMS - USA$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY & LIFE SERVICES INC: $11k → 9%LUENA FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 16%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $15k → 17%IDEAS FOR US: $20k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%EAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $20k → 7%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $5k → 9%LUENA FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%IDEAS FOR US: $15k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $14k → 13%IDEAS FOR US: $14k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%INITIATIVE FOR TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $8k → 11%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $9k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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IL
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MI
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OR
SD
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
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MD
DE
AZ
NM
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TN
NC
DC
HI
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AL
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TX
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Earth Rising Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Earth Rising Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 37 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 66 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
40

Total granted

$1.6M
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

84%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $891k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +61%
  • SH
    Sustainable Harvest International
    4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +11%
  • PS
    POWER SHIFT NETWORK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAZON INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -85%
  • Redhawk Indian Arts Council Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -32%
  • O
    OPAL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -69%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
2
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
3
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
4
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
5
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
8
Earthworks

The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…

Public Benefit
9
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
10
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
11
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment
12
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ideas for Us Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smile Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

128 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 128 of the 148 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/128
Grantees still filing
52/128
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETW…Sustainable Harvest International: $80,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Harvest Internatio…Earth Guardians: $74,420 · EnvironmentEarth GuardiansCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INCClimate Mobilization Project Inc: $56,000 · EnvironmentClimate Mobilization Project I…EARTH CHARTER INDIANA INC: $49,500 · EnvironmentEARTH CHARTER INDIANA INCCLIMATE RIDE INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine Inc: $40,000 · Environment+27 more: $381,750 · Environment+27 morePOWER SHIFT NETWORK: $75,430 · OtherPOWER SHIFT NETWORKCENTRE FOR LIVELIHOODS AND SUPPORT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -CLISSD: $60,476 · OtherGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $50,150 · OtherTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC: $46,500 · OtherGREEN AMERICA: $120,000 · OtherGREEN AMERICA+63 more: $1,010,769 · Other+63 moreOMPRAKASH INC: $219,541 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & …UNITED CHARITABLE: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CH…THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $64,530 · Human ServicesIDEAS FOR US INC: $49,015 · Human ServicesLuena Foundation: $22,561 · Human ServicesEAST BAY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $19,769 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $18,050 · Human ServicesAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSEINC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY & LIFE SERVICES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesGood Work Institute Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $17,500 · Human ServicesJENGA JUMUIA - BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOOL BUILDING: $50,000 · InternationalSEED PROGRAMS INC: $30,000 · InternationalGroundswell International Inc: $25,000 · InternationalAndes-Amazon Conservancy: $25,000 · InternationalKids for Peace: $20,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ENVI: $20,000 · InternationalCenter for Third World Organizing: $20,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $12,000 · InternationalFARMSAHEL: $10,000 · InternationalGUATEMALA VILLAGE HEALTH: $7,500 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $30,000 · Community ImprovementOPAL: $20,000 · Community ImprovementHASER Inc: $20,000 · Community Improvement4MyCity Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFINDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $19,769 · Community ImprovementKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $17,000 · Community ImprovementJONES GARDENS: $15,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementLa Tierra del Jaguar: $55,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $18,533 · EducationSONOMA ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationCLIMATE GENERATION: $12,000 · EducationMOCKINGBIRD INCUBATOR: $11,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $7,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $5,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN SUSTAINABLE LIVING ASSOC: $4,800 · Education
Environment$896,670Other$1,363,325Philanthropy$289,541Human Services$246,425International$224,500Community Improvement$182,769Education$138,833

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $219,541 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGREEN AMERICA: $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $115,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK: $75,430 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetEarth Guardians: $74,420 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $64,530 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCARE ABOUT CLIMATE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 70% of budgetClimate Mobilization Project Inc: $56,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetLa Tierra del Jaguar: $55,500 over 3y, 22% of budgetGLOBAL PEARLS INC: $50,150 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJENGA JUMUIA - BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCHOOL BUILDING: $50,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetEARTH CHARTER INDIANA INC: $49,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetIDEAS FOR US INC: $49,015 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC: $46,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetHAZON INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $32,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEED PROGRAMS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGroundswell International Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRedhawk Indian Arts Council Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAndes-Amazon Conservancy: $25,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetLuena Foundation: $22,561 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCRUSHING COLONIALISM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOPAL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKids for Peace: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAcres4Change Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONSERVATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMycelium Youth Network: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ENVI: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetESSENTIAL INFORMATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTribal Eco Restoration Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHASER Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOPAL-EDUCATION FUND COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKC FARM SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget4MyCity Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH RESTORATION ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

PatagoniaorgAmalgamated Charitabl…Rsf Social Finance IncSolutions Project IncCommon Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationSustainable Markets F…ImpactassetsincWindward FundUnited States Energy …The Schmidt Family Fo…Wallace Global Fund II
PatagoniaorgCA44.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Earth Rising Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earth Rising Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Ideas for Us Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Grow Food Northampton Inc: 25% of income from government
  • 4MyCity Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Roots Rising Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 148 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home